How many of y'all......

nursejennie76 · Aug 26, 2005

Well I have never been sick while working in the ER. I mean there are things that gross me out and ruin my appetite but never gotten sick. I even found a piece of adipose tissue that had fallen out of a trauma patients mangled leg on my shoe after i got home. That was pretty gross!!!!! But the only thing that makes me want to puke, is BM from a C-Dif patient!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nursemomruns · Aug 26, 2005

How many of y'all got sick and threw up after your first time working in the ER?? I would like to work in the ER one day and I never have gotten sick at the site of blood or anything, However I worry that if I see a very bad trauma for the first time that I may get sick.

I have seen many things in the ER that have made me sick at heart, but nothing that has ever made me vomit. You are so involved with what the patient needs, that you don't think about it. Of course, I am one of those weirdos that thinks trauma is fascinating.

I will tell you, I worked midnights in the ER with a nurse that couldn't stand to see emesis. It made her vomit. Whenever she encounterd the situation, she kept a towel to her mouth and helped the patient while she (the nurse) was puking into the towel.

Daytonite, BSN, RN · Aug 26, 2005

How many of y'all got sick and threw up after your first time working in the ER?? I would like to work in the ER one day and I never have gotten sick at the site of blood or anything, However I worry that if I see a very bad trauma for the first time that I may get sick.

I got nauseated and almost hurled the first time I saw little pieces of a guys brain on his pillow. This was in the ER while I was on orientation at my first job. It wasn't the last time. Everytime I see brain tissue on a pillow after a traumatic injury I get physically nauseated. I saw that a number of times as a nursing supervisor. I decided to resign from one job because I had problems dealing with people who had been victims of purposefully inflicted injury (gunshot wounds, beatings, stabbings). It is because I can't imagine one human doing that to another and it would tear my heart out to hear their stories. So, I know my limits and don't push my threshhold. In a student situation you don't have much of a choice.

ClaireMacl · Aug 27, 2005

I can see and do just about everything, trauma, gsw's, gi bleeds... the only thing that you'll tend to see me leaving the cubicle for is the sound of wretching... I don't mind vomit at all, but the sound of wretching strangely makes me feel sick myself, lol.

teeituptom, BSN, RN · Sep 2, 2005

I never did get sick, but I remember one trauma CPR that came in and the Xray Tech was trying to get a film while I was doing compressions and as he wheeled the overhead into place, I got smacked in the head, and was out cold for almost 5 minutes. No permanent damage, I think, well maybe, well who knows, possibly, never know, didnt hurt my golf game, didnt help my golf game, but then my memory isnt the same anymore, or is it.

prmenrs, RN · Sep 2, 2005

I'm getting a visual of Tom's ER as they're trying to haul him off the pt, drag him into the corner so they can continue CPR!

Poor thing! Did they at least get you an ice bag?

teeituptom, BSN, RN · Sep 2, 2005

Not even an tylenol

prmenrs, RN · Sep 2, 2005

for some reason that doesn't surprise me.

tencat · Sep 2, 2005

I'm getting a visual of Tom's ER as they're trying to haul him off the pt, drag him into the corner so they can continue CPR!

:chuckle

I guess I should add that I feel for your pain. But, as Tom said, it didn't hurt the golf game! :rolleyes:

hrtprncss · Sep 2, 2005

only one thing that almost made me faint, i had a patient with an infected iv site that progressed all the way up looking like necrotizing fasciitis, leaving a big big big hematoma which was all blue and soft, and draining....so i called the wound specialist, and i had to stand there while helances the wound jello currant comes out, then inserts his hands and manually scrapes off the wound, looking like jello in huge amounts, and i finally said ''dr pleaseee'', and he said, ''well you're the one who called me''

teeituptom, BSN, RN · Sep 3, 2005

only one thing that almost made me faint, i had a patient with an infected iv site that progressed all the way up looking like necrotizing fasciitis, leaving a big big big hematoma which was all blue and soft, and draining....so i called the wound specialist, and i had to stand there while helances the wound jello currant comes out, then inserts his hands and manually scrapes off the wound, looking like jello in huge amounts, and i finally said ''dr pleaseee'', and he said, ''well you're the one who called me''

Well he has a point there. Personally I love to see abscesses get drained I love seeing how much puss comes out,

I also love irrigating ears, and seeing how much crud can come out of an ear, then the pt who was complaining of a hearing loss is so excited he can hear again.